“We
will respond to the threat of climate change, knowing that the
failure to do so would betray our children and future generations,”
President Obama announced back
in January at his second-term inauguration. Thus began another
year of steady climate change, continued pollution of the atmosphere
and half-hearted attempts at changing the world’s dire trajectory.

By
many measures, 2013 wasn’t particularly extreme: it it wasn’t the
hottest we’ve ever seen; its storms, by and large, weren’t the
most devastating. Much of what occurred can best be seen as a sign of
things to come. Droughts, believed to be exacerbated
by climate change,
will become more
widespread.
Wildfires are expected to get bigger,
longer and smokier by
2050. Twelve months, after all, is but a short moment in Earth’s
history. Only in the future, looking back, will we be able to
recognize the true significance of many of this year’s big numbers:

7:
Where 2013 ranks
among the warmest years in history, according to the World
Meteorological Association. Tied with 2003, the ranking is based on
the year’s first nine months, during which average temperatures
were 0.86°F above the 1960-1991 global average.

400:
The ”milestone,”
in parts per million of atmospheric CO2, that was temporarily crossed
in May. It was the first time carbon levels crossed that boundary in
55 years of record-keeping — and possibly in 3 million years of
history on Earth.

95:
Percent certainty with which IPCC
scientists say
climate change is caused by human activity, a confidence level up
from 90 percent in 1997.

1,100: Amount
by which EPA
regulations proposed
in September would limit emissions from new coal-fired power plants,
in pounds of CO2 per hour. The average plant currently emits CO2 at a
rate of 1,800 pounds per hour.

25:
The factor by which the concentration of PM 2.5 — the part of air
pollution most harmful to human health — exceeded the amount
considered safe in the U.S. when Beijing’s
first “airpocalypse” occurred in
January

1,000: Air
pollution levels in the Chinese city of Harbin, in micrograms per
cubic meter of PM 2.5, during October’s
smog emergency. According
to the World Health Organization, it shouldn’t exceed 20; anything
higher than 300 is considered hazardous.

3.8: Percent
by which Japan said it
would try to reduce its emissions by 2020, down from its
previous pledge of 25 percent.

1.97
million: The
annual minimum
extent of Arctic sea ice,
in square miles. Melting this year wasn’t as severe as it was in
2012, but the remaining area was still 17 percent below average —
and the sixth lowest on record.

121.3:
The
temperature reading,
in degrees Fahrenheit, in the South Australian town of Moomba on
January 12.

90:
Percent
confidence with which researchers at the University of Melbourne
concluded, in
July, that “human influences on the Australian atmosphere had
dramatically increased the odds of extreme temperatures.”

129.2:
The temperature, in degrees Fahrenheit, recorded in California’s
Death Valley on June 30, setting
a record for
the hottest temperature ever recorded on Earth for that month.

2:
The
weather emergency level declared
by officials
in China during this summer’s heat wave — a number normally
reserved for typhoons and floods.

5.9
– 7.9: The
amount of rain, in inches, that normally falls over two and a half
months and instead pummeled
central Europe between May 30 and June 1. Floodwaters in
Germany rose
to their highest levels in over 500 years.

1.3:
The
width,
in miles, of the tornado that struck Moore, Oklahoma on May
20. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., caused controversy
when he invoked
the storm during a speech criticizing climate deniers. While
researchers cannot
be sure there was a link between
climate change and the twister, they believe that a warming planet
may host more frequent, stronger storms.

2.6:
The
width, in miles, of the tornado that struck El Reno, Oklahoma ten
days later. It was the widest
ever measured
on Earth.

20
billion: Cost,
in dollars, of plans laid
out by NYC Mayor Bloomberg in June to make infrastructure
improvements, including floodwalls and storm barriers, in preparation
for the effects of climate change.

6,100:
The
most recent death
count from
Typhoon Haiyan, which officially became the deadliest storm in
Philippines’ history. Bodies continue to be recovered.

The
Fukushima NPP continues to disturb the general public even almost
three years after the accident. New leaks of radioactive water beyond
the protective dam took place recently due to heavy rain. People give
less and less credence to nuclear experts’ assurances that the sea
was not polluted.

Meanwhile,
the US newspaper The Cape Cod Times reports that toxic leakage from
the NPP is approaching the US west coast. Seventy sailors from the
USS Ronald Reagan that took part in the rescue operation after the
accident are going to sue Tepco, the Fukushima NPP operator. The
sailors claim that the company did not warn them about all risks that
the crew could face.

The
aircraft carrier spent a month in the offing at the distance of ten
miles from the NPP in a spot of radioactive fallout. The crew
desalinated overboard water and drank it and used it for cooking,
which caused cases of cancer and even blindness.

Oceanic
pollution within 10 miles around the NPP is understandable. The main
part of nuclear disintegration products got into the water and not
into the air like in Chernobyl. Ocean currents carry harmful
substances far away. Even in other parts of the world fish and
seafood drawn from contaminated streams can be dangerous for humans,
Maxim Shingarkin, Deputy Chairman of the State Duma Committee for
Natural Resources says.

"Currents
in the World Ocean are so structured that the areas of seafood
capture near the US north-west coast are more likely to contain
radioactive nuclides than even the Sea of Okhotsk which is much
closer to Japan. These products are the main danger for mankind
because they can find their way to people’s tables on a massive
scale."

Contaminated
fish can swim anywhere, so fishing is not absolutely safe in any
region of the world any more. It is impossible to test the entire
catch for pollution, just as it is impossible to introduce a
universal ban on fishing. The Japanese government has just partially
banned fishing in the most dangerous areas. Vladimir Slivyak,
Co-chairman of the Ecodefence international ecology group is
speaking.

"The
Russian governmentplanned to restrict fishing in the Far East. As far
as I know, no such restrictions have been introduced so far. Still it
is possible that some steps will be taken."

As
for atmospheric pollution, radio nuclides from Fukushima reached
California and Mexico 8 days after the accident. Russia was not
affected, Maxim Shingarkin says.

"Air
emissions were not projected either on the Sea of Okhotsk, or
Sakhalin, or the Far East, or the Kuril Islands. So airlifting
cargoes does not seem dangerous so far. I mean so far because not all
the nuclear fuel has been taken out of the power generation units.
This means that radioactive emissions into the atmosphere are
possible as a result of heating."

It
took years after Chernobyl to make detailed conclusions about the
scale of nuclear pollution. We are having a similar situation with
Fukushima, Vladimir Slivyak believes.

"We’ll
probably know the consequences of this accident in 10-15 years. It is
clear that a large amount of fish, sea weeds and everything the ocean
contains has been polluted. It is clear that pollution spreads all
over Earth. It is clear that vast territories have been polluted in
Japan itself. All this is generally clear. But we need research to
provide more details and this will take a long time."

Meanwhile, even now every
blue-finned tuna fish drawn near the Californian coast has signs of
radioactive pollution. This information is provided by one of the
research portals (globalresearchreport.com). Most likely, polluted
water approached those parts because the level of radioactive iodine
in brown algae has risen over 200-fold. The level of caesium-137 has
risen all along the US west coast. Caesium-137 has been found in
local berries and mushrooms. Local residents often report the deaths
of birds. Radioactive nuclides have even reached the shores of Alaska
where the population of the sock-eye salmon has dropped dramatically.
Some experts believe that we can expect more consequences of the
accident at the Japanese NPP.

Nearly
three years after an earthquake and tsunami caused the greatest
nuclear disaster in decades, Japan is still in the early days of its
massive Fukushima cleanup effort. Powering the cleanup of the fallout
zone is an army of workers making $60 a day to decontaminate the
region.

Now,
where do you find people willing to work in a fallout zone for
minimum wage? According to a Reuters report, hidden within hundreds
of contractors working on the cleanup effort are yakuza-controlled
companies that pay headhunters to find homeless people willing to
work inside the fallout zone.

The
sheer scale of the cleanup effort is staggering. While
decontaminating the Fukushima plant itself will cost tens of billions
and take years, there are also the surrounding areas in Fukushima
prefecture, where cleanup costs are expected to top $30 billion. With
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco), the owner of the Fukushima plant,
essentially nationalized at this point, Reuters reports that there's
some $35 billion in taxpayer funds on the table for contractors.

That's
turned the Fukushima cleanup into something of a boom industry, with
a number of shady entities trying to score a piece of the pie. Some
highlights from the newest Reuters report, which is definitely worth
reading in full:

Members
of Japanese organized crime were arrested three times this year "on
charges of infiltrating construction giant Obayashi Corp's network of
decontamination subcontractors and illegally sending workers to the
government-funded project," which in some cases were homeless
people hired by recruiters paid bounties on each minimum-wage worker
they could sign up.

Obayashi,
Japan's second-largest construction company, isn't accused of
wrongdoing; the subcontractors implicated in arrests were as many as
three companies removed from Obayashi itself. How does that happen?
There are hundreds of companies involved in the cleanup effort, and
oversight is lacking.

The
total number of companies received taxpayer funds hasn't been
released. "But in the 10 most contaminated towns and a highway
that runs north past the gates of the wrecked plant in Fukushima,"
reads the report, "Reuters found 733 companies were performing
work for the Ministry of Environment, according to partial contract
terms released by the ministry in August under Japan's information
disclosure law.

Reuters
found 56 subcontractors that shouldn't be allowed to be given
government contracts because they didn't have proper clearances from
Japan's construction clearances. Five firms listed on the Japanese
Environment Ministry's list of cleanup contractors don't even exist.

With
a project that's unprecedented in scope, and one that's been rushed
from the start, it's to be expected that there will be some level of
waste. After all, finding experienced contractors to bid against each
other is a lot easier for a road construction project than it is for
nuclear disaster cleanup. But the morass of sketchy contracting
companies and sheer lack of oversight as described by Reuters is
astounding.

But
that lack of oversight isn't particularly surprising. A previous
Reuters report found much of the same: With flat wage growth and few
workers willing to take on the cleanup, hundreds of subcontractors
have filled positions by relying on recruiters willing to find labor
from anywhere.

The
oversight problem isn't limited to labor, either: Earlier this year,
the Japanese Nuclear Regulation Authority (NRA) downgraded the
Fukushima disaster to its worst rating since its initial
post-earthquake peak, thanks to the finding that temporary tanks for
storing radioactive waste were leaking at the power plant site. At
the time, the NRA said it wasn't sure if Japan could manage the
cleanup on its own.

"The
current situation is at the point where more surveillance won't be
enough to keep the accidents from happening," NRA chairman
Shunichi Tanaka told reporters at the time. "Our job is now to
lower the risk of these accidents from becoming fatal."

Along
with the leaks from storage tanks, a number of massive leaks have
come from the Fukushima site, largely ending up in the Pacific. At
the center of those problems is Tepco, which remains the authority
controlling the decontamination of the Fukushima reactors, and which
has consistently failed to maintain proper records and standards,
even following billion-dollar injections of government cash.

In
October, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said his country was open
to receiving international assistance, which came after a series of
international calls for exactly that. It's unclear what form that
might take, but having a stronger authority overseeing the project
may help. Whether it's the power plant or the surrounding prefecture,
it's becoming increasingly clear that the Japanese government has
shown a severe lack of oversight of the Fukushima cleanup.

Former
MSNBC host told not to warn people about Fukushima meltdowns: “The
official gov’t position is that it’s safe”

Cenk
Uygur, co-host:
I was on MSNBC at the time when this happened, I said, “Don’t
trust what the Japanese government is saying, they’ll say trust
what the electric power company is saying. Go, go, go, get outta
there. Get as far away from that plant as you can. It’s literally a
core meltdown.” And they always don’t want people to panic, so
they were always like, “Oh it’s going to be okay.” [...] I’m
like, “You’re crazy man, don’t be anywhere near that reactor.”
And I remember at the time, of course not at The Young Turks, but on
cable news, people were like, “Hey Cheynk, you know, I don’t know
that you want to say that, because the official government position
is that it’s safe.” Oh, is that the official government position?
Now go explain that to the people who served on the USS Ronald
Reagan.

At
5:45 in

Uygur:
So the next time you hear the government tell you, “Oh no, no, this
is our official position that it’s not that bad to be near the
nuclear meltdown,” don’t believe the hype. Get the hell out of
there.

12/31/13
Forcast US & Canada 1501 Nuclear Atoms Per Meter³ Air

Unit
3 Mox Fuel is two million times more dangerous than any other reactor
on earth , is spewing new Death Plumes , meaning new death streams .
We will get them here in BC Canada tonight and yesterday and tomorrow
etc etc . Think of the Death Streams like a big ground swell after a
storm at sea that continues for thousands of miles till it slams into
a few 1000 miles of coast line . The jet streams are distributing a
percentage of those buckyballs all along the way and they hang there
and get picked up by lower wind currents and carried along and picked
back up in rain and snow or again by the jet stream like a continues
flow we can not see , hear , smell , feel or taste . So how will you
know how much , well its been a state secret for over a 1000 days ,
do you think its because nothing happened or do you think its because
something is happening constantly and a hand full of people decided
no one can tell you .

The
Cass County Sheriff's Office is strongly recommending an evacuation
of the entire City of Casselton and anyone residing five miles to the
south and east of Casselton, effective immediately.

Information
from the National Weather Service indicates a shift in the weather
resulting in a high pressure system that will push the plume of smoke
down increasing the risk of potential health hazards.

Those
in the areas south and east of Casselton are also encouraged to
consider evacuating, specifically Durbin Township and Everest
Township east of ND State Highway 18.

Those
evacuated should go to a safe location until further notice. If
evacuees need a place to go, the Red Cross and Salvation Army have
organized a shelter at Discovery Middle School, 1717 40th Ave S, in
Fargo.

If
children are located by emergency responders they will be brought to
Central Cass High School for reunification with a guardian.

If
transportation is needed from your home, contact the Cass County
Tactical Operations Center at (701) 297-6000.

This
evacuation is precautionary and in anticipation of potential changes
in wind direction. Those within the evacuation zone are not currently
in immediate danger but the potential exists if the wind changes
direction.

Cass
County Sheriff's Deputies and Casselton Fire Fighters will be going
door to door in the evacuation zone to inform and assist those who
reside in that area.

The
shelter at Discovery Middle School will be opened by 6:30 p.m. Monday
night. Anyone coming to the shelter should enter through west
gymnasium doors.

The
Red Cross is preparing to take in 100 people at the shelter, but have
the capacity to hold up to 500. The shelter will be equipped with
cots, food, and other necessary items for families displaced.

A
Red Cross disaster mental health professional is also being deployed
to the shelter to provide emotional support.

UPDATED
4:30 P.M.

From
the Cass County Sheriff's Office: A 104 car BNSF Train collided with
another train while traveling eastbound approximately one mile west
of Casselton, ND. How the collision occurred is unknown at this time.

The
east bound train was carrying crude oil. Approximately 10 cars are
fully engulfed resulting in heavy smoke in the area. Casselton Fire
and the Fargo HazMat Team are currently battling the fire.

This
is a HazMat incident. All people and animals within a 10 mile radius
of Casselton, ND should find shelter and avoid going outside until
the incident and area are deemed safe.

ORIGINAL
STORY

BREAKING
NEWS: A train is derailed west of Casselton, North Dakota. It
happened at 35th Street and 154th Avenue Southeast just before 2:20
p.m. Monday.

No
injuries have been reported so far. Several area emergency teams are
on scene and are setting up an incident command center. The Cass
County Sheriff's Office says a train went off the tracks and a second
train hit it.

Several
train cars are on fire and huge plumes of toxic, black smoke can be
seen for miles. Several explosions have also been reported. Emergency
crews are urging people to stay inside and a code red alert has been
sent out to residents in a two mile radius of the accident.

The
Casselton Fire Department says a Burlington Northern Santa Fe train
is involved. An unknown number of cars derailed, but we're told the
train that is derailed was pulling more than 100 cars, some carrying
oil.

The
wind is from the northwest, which means the smoke may miss Casselton
but people living to the southeast of town are being told to stay
inside. The Casselton Fire Department says there is some concern
that the derailment is near an ethanol plant.

A
Valley News Live Crew is on scene. We will bring you more pictures
and more information as soon as we get it.

2013
was a remarkable weather and climate year for Alaska, with extremes
of heat and cold, severe ice jam and coastal flooding and even
drought.

January
brought the coldest weather of the year, with a climate station near
Delta Junction recording the lowest official temperature of 63°
below on January 28th.The spring was very cold over the mainland but
this was followed by extremely warm weather during the summer. Juneau
saw the latest 4+ inch snowfall in its long weather history on April
26th, and for the first time in more than 40 years the winter
snowpack in Anchorage held on into May.

The
cold spring was directly responsible for the devastating ice jam
flooding that struck Galena in late May. The high of 97°F on June
17th at Amber Lake, southwest of Talkeetna was just three degrees shy
of the all-time record for Alaska, and Fairbanks had 36 days with
highs of 80°F or higher, by far the most ever in one summer.

The
summer was especially dry in the southeast Interior, resulting in a
poor hay crop. October was extremely mild across the state, in some
places the warmest of record, and in southern Southeast was also
unusually dry. November brought damaging coastal flooding to some
western coastal communities and significant freezing rain to many
areas. At Fairbanks this occurred with damaging winds that toppled
snow and ice laden trees and knocked out electricity to a third of
area customers.

Mike
Ruppert is stepping back from Facebook and the need to go through
everything that is posted on his page. It makes no sense in the world
for his talents to be bogged down in this way. It will free him to
make an even more contribution than he is already.

There
are three things which unequivocally and absolutely guarantee the
Near Term Extinction of the human species and quite possibly all life
on the planet. They are out on the table, acknowledged, repeatedly
confirmed and corroborated and they are having direct, painful and
tangible impacts on our lives this minute. And they all have direct
bearing on each other.

The
first of these is Global Warming and Climate Chaos caused by human
industrial activity (infinite growth). Of a certainty a four to six
degree Centigrade temperature increase is in the very-near future,
and -- by what is now not an extreme calculation – the last of our
species should be gone by 2030 because the ecosystem which we need to
provide us food, water, air and habitable climates will have been
destroyed, the web of life ripped to shreds.

It
may very well happen much sooner than that.

According
to Guy McPherson, the only thing which might have the slightest
mitigating impact on Global Warming – over which humankind has any
control – would be the immediate cessation of all industrial
activity on a planetary level, immediately removing the
ever-increasing release of carbon into the atmosphere, by a meme
which runs us and owns us, rather than the other way around. It is a
meme which must play itself out.

The
second of these “causes of death” is radiation. By now we
understand fully that the totally unresolved and uncontrolled
disaster at Fukushima has for 33 months bombarded the entire Northern
Hemisphere and Pacific Ocean with radiation. A lesser realized truth
is that there are some 60 nuclear power plants around the United
States that are boiling along long past their planned operating
lives. They are rickety. They have fires. They have leaks. They have
cooling system failures. They flood. There are also many nuclear
storage facilities like Hanford and West Lake outside of St. Louis
which in the case of Hanford are releasing or Westlake (in danger of
releasing) additional enormous quantities of radiation into the air,
the water tables, or the soil.

It
takes 40 years, a lot of money (energy) and an enormous amount of
fossil fuel to fully decommission a nuclear reactor. Absent
industrial civilization it will never be possible to safely shut down
all 450 operating nuclear reactors and recover or maintain control of
perhaps thousands of nuclear waste facilities around the world. And
our obligation is to provide safe and secure storage for all of that
radioactive waste for one million years.

Mankind
has yet to build a structure which will last 50,000 years, let alone
a million.

Damned
if we do. Damned if we don’t.

But
there is a third element that triply seals our fate. It is called
Exponential Growth… Just recently on Facebook a friend posted a
great video from the late Professor Al Bartlett of Princeton who,
throughout his career, was the Champion of sounding the alarm on what
Exponential Growth means. He was a fabulous human being with a wicked
sense of humor. It isn’t higher math. It’s actually simple
arithmetic. If one starts with a square on a checkerboard and puts
one grain of rice on that square, two on the next, four on the next,
eight on the next, doubling for each square, by the time one reaches
the last of 64 squares there will be an amount of rice greater than
the annual output of most Asian nations combined.

Now
let’s look at infinite growth as though it were taking place in a
glass, or a Petri dish, or on a finite planet which -- when full and
containing no more resources – spells the complete die off of
whatever was growing inside due to resource exhaustion. It’s true
for Caribou. It’s true for bacteria. It’s true for human beings.
As the late Terrence McKenna warned as he predicted “the end of
history” in the late 1990s, if the doubling takes place every
minute, then just one minute before the inevitable population
collapse, the Petri dish would only be half full. When McKenna
sounded these warnings, roughly a decade before I started, human
population was only 3.5 billion. Human population has since doubled
in less than 20 years. With enough resources it would double again in
less than 15. But we can clearly see that the Petri dish is full.

As
we go live on the air tonight:

Fukushima’s
ongoing deadly release of radiation has not been contained for 33
months. New records for radioactive emissions are announced weekly.
The Japanese – as they have done continually for more than 30
months -- are incinerating tons of highly radioactive waste directly
into the atmosphere. The International Atomic Energy Agency has
granted TEPCO permission to release ALL of its radioactive water into
the Pacific.

The
carnage that is human industrial civilization continues absolutely
unabated and unrestrained. Tens of thousands of coal fired generating
plants continue to operate around the world. Tens of thousands of
natural gas fired plants using fracked gas continue to destroy water
tables, cause earthquakes and add to the ever-increasing amounts of
carbon released into the atmosphere. The plants themselves may not,
but the extraction of the gas they burn is one of the most carbon
intensive and destructive, toxic processes known. In Canada the tar
sands are being voraciously mined with continuing release of carbon,
environmental destruction, and rapacious ruination of fresh water
supplies. In North Dakota, so-called “shale oil” production
proceeds with ferocious intensity. Factories and corporations
required to show “growth” and profit continue to churn out cars
and TVs and cell phones and junk, all wrapped in plastic which will
last about as long as radioactive waste. And because the cheap, easy
energy is gone, every year industrial nations resort to more
damaging, more desperate, more carbon-intensive means to get their
hands on less and less energy, often expending more energy to obtain
what they all fuel than they get from burning it.

Absolutely
nothing has been – or is being – done about the things that are
really killing us, and not just us, but every living thing on the
planet. Just a lot of talk. Well I’ve been talking for 35 years and
I’m almost done with it.

Every
day, as more than 250,000 new humans arrive on the planet, more than
200 species go extinct… forever. Exponential growth of human
population has never been addressed, in large part because the
economic mandate for infinite growth has never been addressed. Thus
the pressures to not do anything at all about the first two problems
are ever greater. I call it “Catch 22 Cubed.” More people need
more heat, more power, more food grown with fossil fuels… More,
more, more.

This
is the end of More.

As
the Eschaton event emerges, and as we approach it with
ever-increasing clarity about what “it” is I have noticed on
Facebook -- where I have invested enormous energy in community
building and consciousness raising -- a disappointing trend of late.
Briefly summarized, it goes like this: The more clearly we see our
imminent physical demise, the more people tend to talk about things
that are irrelevant to it. They want to talk about Ed Snowden. They
want to talk about disaster capitalism. They want to talk about
Iran-Contra. They want to talk about whether a specific and alarming
radiation reading, in Death Valley, or Idaho, or Colorado, or
Washington actually came from Fukushima or not. They want to talk
about who did or did not make a good reading somewhere. They want to
talk which competing theory/hypothesis on the actual conditions at
Fukushima is correct instead of abut the fact that we know what we
are being told is an absolute lie. They want to talk about Albert
Bartlett’s personality as opposed to the simple arithmetic he
presented which they still refuse to see.

My
sense of Facebook now is that people are using more and more
intelligence and effort to find things to divert their attention away
from, rather than towards a reality that is becoming more and more
abundantly clear to millions, tens of millions, and soon to be
billions of people on this deeply wounded planet. Well baby, if
that’s your game… and I play it… Then all I’m doing is
validating your game…

I
have reached a point of diminishing marginal returns on Facebook and
this week I pretty much exiled myself from the page. I do not need to
read all these stories that get posted. I find about 90% of them
irrelevant now. And I’m real confident that I’m doing some of the
best work of my entire life right here on the Progressive Radio
Network with you every Sunday.

My
Facebook page is an amazingly useful, safe, well-crafted and
productive space, free from disinformation. In my absence it will be
cared for and protected by loyal friends and tribal members who have
been there for the whole ride. I will check in from time to time and
make announcements about upcoming shows or when something really
serious happens.

But
in the meantime reading anything – anything at all – that is not
about industrial civilization ending, a reality-based approach to
dealing with nuclear power actually underway, or an actual end to
infinite growth is just wasting my time. I’m ready to almost
strangle the next person who starts any sentence with, “We could…”

We
know what’s here. We are beginning to understand what it means. And
it’s high time we turned our full gaze and attention to it. This is
the culminating event of all of what we have called history.

It’s
here. It’s now. It’s what we came here to witness and be a part
of. There’s no game left to play but to face it. Not facing it will
produce what Terrence McKenna called “A fire in a madhouse.”

In
upcoming shows I’ll be discussing more of the only thing that makes
sense of it all – and is doing more so every week -- and of my own
life’s long and arduous journey. I call it “The Safety Valve at
the End of History”.

Hint:
Terrence McKenna.

It’s
time to sit back, put my feet up and focus on center stage because
this is the finale and I don’t want to miss it. It’s what I came
here for. So did you